Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Seeing Social Media More as Portal Than as Pitfall

From the article: "The telephone provoked many of the same worries that more recently have been expressed about online social media…Indeed, much of the early research — and many of the early pronouncements — on social media seemed calculated to make parents terrified of an emerging technology that many of them did not understand as well as their children did…scientists are now turning to a more nuanced understanding of this new world. Many have started to approach social media as an integral, if risky, part of adolescence, perhaps not unlike driving." Read more